No word shall be left behind or left to fade into irrelevance,
and Oxford Dictionaries is making sure of it by adding this year's
most "buzzworthy" words to its online dictionary -- including "buzzworthy" itself.

Perhaps not surprisingly, many of the new words have their roots
in technology, including "bitcoin", "internet of things", "click and collect" and "hackerspace",
along with the slightly more twee "selfie", "emoji" and "digital
detox". Despite most of us hoping the word "phablet" would die a
quick death the very first time we heard it, it seems to have well
and truly caught on and has too been award a place in the
dictionary.

Showing some great forward thinking, Oxford Dictionaries has
also chosen to include "MOOC",
which is the acronym for massive open online course, and "space tourism" to its online word catalogue. MOOCs are yet to
really reach the mainstream, but are likely to become increasingly
important in the future as a way of making university courses
cheaper and more widely available to people around the world. While
there have so far been only a limited number of space tourists,
space tourism is at
least more than just a distant dream these days.

It is with some dismay that we must announce that "babymoon",
"twerk", "squee", "unlike" (defined as withdrawing your approval,
rather than simply disliking something) and "srsly" have also been
included. Rather strangely "A/W", which means autumn/winter and
refers to the fashion season, has been added, and yet "S/S"
(spring/summer) has been overlooked.

If you suffer from "FOMO" (fear of missing out, apparently), you
can see the full list for yourself, and choose how best to express your
delight, dismay or confusion that "jorts" (denim shorts), "cake
pop" (little ball of cake on a stick) and "fauxhawk" (a mohawk that
isn't really a mohawk) are all officially now things, and well and
truly part of our lexicon.

Word fans on Twitter might want to follow Oxford Dictionaries
(@OxfordWords), as it
tweets a word of the day every day, which is always interesting,
unusual and quite often charming.